Elise Ellington, a 14-year-old eighth-grader at Clarksdale’s W.A. Higgins Academy, competed against 40 of her peers in a statewide spelling bee for the second time at the Mississippi Public Broadcasting Studio in Jackson on Tuesday.

Coahoma Community College's Baseball has made a lot of progress in the last two seasons. The progress took flight in 2017 when the Tigers went 20-24, 8-18 MACJC. The players persevered in 2018, finishing 23-23, 11-17 MACJC, although falling one game short of making the MACJC playoffs.

Clarksdale mayor Chuck Espy put criminals on notice when local law enforcement officers met at the Expo Center Thursday morning for a public service announcement letting the community know police departments would be stepping up their games.

According to a press release from the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Oxford, a former employee at a Clarkdale bank was recently sentenced to two years in prison for embezzling funds from Southern Bancorp Bank.

A 41-year-old Clarksdale man was shot and killed by an officer with the Clarksdale Police Department, who was investigating a reported prowler on Saturday night in a quiet residential area near downtown Clarksdale.

While much of the nation’s attention was focused on the U.S. Senate race in Mississippi in Tuesday’s runoff election, Coahoma County voters were also deciding who would occupy a seat on a little-known board that is about as far from D.C. as one can get.

A 41-year-old Clarksdale man was shot and killed by an officer with the Clarksdale Police Department, who was investigating a reported prowler on Saturday night in a quiet residential area near downtown Clarksdale.

While much of the nation’s attention was focused on the U.S. Senate race in Mississippi in Tuesday’s runoff election, Coahoma County voters were also deciding who would occupy a seat on a little-known board that is about as far from D.C. as one can get.